An unnamed intelligence operative, recruited into a shadow war fought through time-inverted weapons and objects, teams with an enigmatic ally to stop a dying Russian oligarch from using technology gifted by a dying future to erase the present.

1. Scenes 1–17

   The Protagonist in his zone of comfort — a skilled, anonymous field operative, competent and confident inside the Kiev operation.

2. Scenes 18–20

   Broken by torture and 'killed,' he needs a new purpose; Fay offers one that transcends the nation-state loyalties that just got his team killed.

3. Scenes 21–32

   He enters the wholly unfamiliar situation of Tenet — the wind turbine, the password test, and Barbara's proof that time itself can run backward.

4. Just before
5. Scene 35

   Armed guards patrol Sanjay Singh's tower.

6. Scene 36

   Sanjay Singh mixes drinks inside his penthouse.

7. Scene 37

   Neil and the Protagonist rig a catapult line onto the tower's balcony from the roof next door.

8. Scene 38

   This scene